Join Out of the Wings on the final day of the 2026 Out of the Wings Festival for a practical two-hour workshop with translator and director Fran Olivares Medina and Chilean playwright Carla Zúñiga, who will join us remotely from Chile. The workshop will take place at Omnibus Theatre on Saturday, 18 July 2026, from 3pm to 5pm. Register for free here. This free workshop is aimed at anyone interested in theatre in translation and will explore the challenges of translating and wo

Join us on Tuesday, July 14 for the opening event of the 2026 Out of the Wings Festival: the Worldmaking on Stage Forum. On the theme of Theatre Translation Networks in Building Acts of Worldmaking, the Forum will take place at King's College London and is free to attend (register here). At the Forum, we will bring together practitioners and researchers — actors, directors, producers, literary managers, commissioning editors, dramaturges, writers, translators, research studen

The Anemone and the Boar (La anémona y el jabalí) by Argentine dramatist Mónica Maffía was translated into English by Out of the Wings member Sophie Stevens in 2021, programmed in the annual Festival in 2023, and will be produced in Las Vegas by Asylum Theatre in May 2026. Details here. Jimena Larraguivel, Chloe Wigmore and Gigi Guizado rehearsing, London, 2023 (photo credit Terry Cripps). On Friday 22 nd May at 10am Las Vegas/1800 London, translator Sophie Stevens and Out of

In October 2025, OOTW member Kate Eaton attended the Encuentro for writers and translators organised by the Asociación de Autoras y Autores de Teatro in Madrid and in November fellow OOTW member Rachel Toogood attended the Encuentro de Traducción at the Muestra International de Teatro in Alicante. We both met a wonderful range of brilliant playwrights, all eager to be translated into English! Sadly we can’t translate them all, so we have written a blog to share details of t

Omnibus Theatre, 20 May 2026, 7:00pm Pictured: Marinella Mezzanotte reads her translation from Italian at a previous OOTW ‘Open Mic’ at Omnibus. FREE EVENT: BOOK HERE Join Out of the Wings (OOTW) this 20 May 2026 for a night in celebration of theatre, translation, and how plays, words and worlds can travel from one language to another. Beginning with a theatre translation ‘open mic’ session, we will then invite a panel of guests to explore the subject of producing theatre in

Tuesday 14 July 2026 Bush House (SE)2.09 Bush House Lecture Theatre 5 Call for Presenters As part of the 2026 Out of the Wings Festival, Out of the Wings is once again coming together with Language Acts and Worldmaking, and working with the Institute of Languages, Culture and Societies and the University of Reading, to offer a one-day discussion forum aimed at theatre translation practitioners and researchers. Taking place on Tuesday 14 July, and timed to coincide with the

Section from the cover of The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Play s designed by Megan Wilson Following the recent publication of The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays , two events in London this March will invite translators, theatre-makers, researchers and anyone with an interest in creativity across languages and cultures to explore and respond to the six plays in the anthology. On March 6 at Senate House , Creative Practice and Collaboratio

Out of the Wings (OOTW) is a collective whose mission is to explore and promote theatre in translation from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. A flagship event in our activities is our annual festival, which in 2026 will celebrate its tenth edition. Taking place at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, from 14 to 18 July 2026 , the festival will feature a script-in-hand reading of an English translation of a play every evening. The readings will be presented as part of a wider

Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 10:30-17:00BST Macadam Building MB2.2, Kings College London WC2R 2NS OOTW Members Sophie Stevens and Catherine...

We are delighted to confirm the full line-up for the 2025 Out of the Wings festival at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, July 15-19. See further...

Pictured: Marinella Mezzanotte reads her translation from Italian at a previous OOTW ‘Open Mic’ at Omnibus. Out of the Wings: A Night in...

Out of the Wings Forum 2025 Worldmaking on Stage: Hearing Each Other Tuesday 15 July 2025 Macadam Building MB2.2, King’s College...

We're proud to be part of a wider theatre translation community at Out of the Wings, with companies, collectives and initiatives around...

Haz clic aquí para leer este blog en español. In July 2024, the 8th Out of the Wings Festival at Omnibus Theatre closed with a reading...

Click here to read this blog in English. El VIII Festival de Out of the Wings, en el Omnibus Theatre en julio de 2024, cerró con una...

Pictured: Toni Agustí, Gloria March and Lara Salvador in the 2024 Spanish production of Valparaíso , written and directed by Víctor...

Out of the Wings Festival 2025 Omnibus Theatre Clapham Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 July 2025 Call for Script Submissions The call for...

It’s July and the 2024 Out of the Wings Festival is fast approaching. It’s the eighth annual festival for OOTW and the flagship event of...

Volcano of the Witches ( Volcán de brujas ) will open the Out of the Wings play readings at Omnibus Theatre, London, on 16 July 2024....

The UK Spring is almost making its presence felt, and as usual for this time of year, team OOTW are busy. There are so many events coming...